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基本信息
·出版社：Gotham Books
·页码：352 页码
·出版日：2007年
·ISBN：9781592402946
·条码：9781592402946
·装帧：精装
内容简介
From the sea to your plate, the first international tour of sushi’s journey in the global marketplace
One generation ago, sushi’s narrow reach ensured that sports fishermen who caught tuna in most of the world sold the meat for pennies as cat food. Today, the fatty cuts of tuna known astoroare among the planet’s most coveted luxury foods, worth hundreds of dollars a pound and capable of losing value more quickly than any other product on earth. So how has one of the world’s most popular foods gone from being practically unknown in the U.S. to being served in towns all across America, and in such a short span of time? Sushi aficionados and newcomers alike will be surprised to learn the true history, intricate business, and international allure behind this fascinating food.
A riveting combination of culinary biography, behind-the-scenes restaurant detail, and a unique exploration of globalization’s dynamics, journalist Sasha Issenberg traces sushi’s journey from Japanese street snack to global delicacy.THE SUSHI ECONOMYtakes you through the stalls of Tokyo’s massive Tsukiji market, where the auctioneers sell millions of dollars of fish each day, and to the birthplace of modern sushi--in Canada. He then follows sushi’s evolution in America, exploring how it became LA’s favorite food. You’re taken behind the sushi bar with the chef Nobu Matsuhisa, whose distinctive travels helped to define the flavors of global sushi cuisine, and with a unique sushi chef blazing a path in Texas. Issenberg also delves into the complex economics of the fish trade, following the ups and downs of the hunt for bluefin off New England, the tuna cowboys on the southern coast of Australia who invented the art of tuna ranching, and uncovering the mysterious underworld of pirates, smugglers, and the tuna black market.
Few businesses reveal the complex dynamics of globalization as acutely as the tuna’s journey from the sea to the sushi bar. After traversing the pages ofTHE SUSHI ECONOMY, you’ll never see the food on your plate — or the world around you — quite the same way again.
作者简介
Sasha Issenberghas written for Slate,The Washington Monthly, Inc., Philadelphia, andGeorge, where he served as a contributing editor.
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书评
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review.In this intriguing first book, Philadelphia-based journalist Issenberg roams the globe in search of sushi and takes the reader on a cultural, historical and economic journey through the raw-fish trade that reads less like economics and more like an entertaining culinary travelogue. In the years since the end of WWII, the practical protein-and-rice delicacy once unknown outside Japan has become so commonplace that the elements of its trade affect a far-flung global network of fanatics, chefs, tuna ranchers and pirates. While the West reached out for things Japanese, from management techniques to Walkmans, the growth of the market for quality fish, especiallymaguro, the bluefin tuna beloved by sushi eaters everywhere, paralleled Japan's rise from postwar ruin to 1980s economic powerhouse and into its burst-bubble present. Issenberg follows every possible strand in this worldwide web of history, economics and cuisine—an approach that keeps the book lively with colorful places and characters, from the Tokyo fish market to the boats of North Atlantic fishermen, from tuna ranches off the coast of Australia to the sushi bars in Austin, Tex. He weaves the history of the art and cuisine of sushi throughout, and his smart, lively voice makes the most arcane information fascinating.(May)
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FromBookmarks Magazine
Sasha Issenberg, an investigative reporter atPhiladelphiamagazine, gained national notoriety a few years ago when he fact-checked David Brooks's article in theAtlantic Monthly, "One Nation, Slightly Divisable." He found plenty of errors and generalizations. WithThe Sushi Economy, he impressed critics with his thoughtful and well-written account of how sushi became the world's favorite luxury cuisine. Filled with interesting detail, the book also contains surprising facts and anecdotes that critics were quick to quote.The New York Timesfelt the narrative sometimes dragged, with one passage that describes a fish being transferred from boat to dock feeling "longer than the flight to Japan." Other critics thought Issenberg strained too much on occasion, for example by comparing sushi chefs with samurai. Despite these minor criticisms, reviewers overall recommended this book as a fascinating view of the global economy.
Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.
Mark Bittman, author ofThe Best Recipes in the WorldandHow to Cook Everything
Sasha Issenberg'sTHE SUSHI ECONOMYis a perfectly timed book about two important topics. Like a good piece of sushi, it's simple, complex, and full of delicious surprises.
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Sasha Issenberg'sTHE SUSHI ECONOMYis a perfectly timed book about two important topics. Like a good piece of sushi, it's simple, complex, and full of delicious surprises. (Mark Bittman, author ofThe Best Recipes in the WorldandHow to Cook Everything)
Everywhere I travel in the world there seems to be a sushi bar awaiting me. Now, for the first time, I understand the culinary phenomenon with informed eyes and stomach. Sasha Issenberg’sTHE SUSHI ECONOMYis a riveting and witty inquiry into the raw fish explosion. As a non-fiction stylist, he’s first-rate. A must read! (Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Tulane University, bestselling author ofThe Great Deluge)
Sasha Issenberg has produced an exquisite specimen of culinary anthropology- -and literary journalism and political economy. He reveals fascinating wrinkles in the global economy with wit and color. (Franklin Foer, bestselling author ofHow Soccer Explains the World)
This is one of those rare books that reveals a vast and fascinating system behind something you've entirely taken for granted.THE SUSHI ECONOMYis not just a book about our growing appetite for raw fish--it's a brilliant look at globalization in practice. (Steven Johnson, bestselling author ofThe Ghost MapandEverything Bad is Good for You)
Franklin Foer, bestselling author ofHow Soccer Explains the World
Sasha Issenberg has produced an exquisite specimen of culinary anthropology- -and literary journalism and political economy. He reveals fascinating wrinkles in the global economy with wit and color.
Steven Johnson, bestselling author ofThe Ghost MapandEverything Bad is Good for You
This is one of those rare books that reveals a vast and fascinating system behind something you've entirely taken for granted.THE SUSHI ECONOMYis not just a book about our growing appetite for raw fish--it's a brilliant look at globalization in practice.
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